LA Opera At Home

(Los Angeles) June 6, 2020 — During its unplanned hiatus from public performances, LA Opera has created an extensive array of online programming under the banner LAO at Home. Here's what's on tap for next week.

• Tuesday, June 9, at 2pm PDT  —  Opera Family Time
  In this episode of Shakespeare Sings, soprano (and Shakespeare super-fan) Katherine Powers talks about Othello with actor/playwright Keith Hamilton Cobb, and offers a performance of Desdemona's heartbreaking "Willow Song" from Verdi's operatic setting.
  
  
• Wednesday, June 10, at 4pm PDT  —  Living Room Recital
  A distinguished alumnus of the company's young artist program, tenor Frederick Ballentine will return next season as Dr. Richardson in Breaking the Waves. But first, he collaborates with pianist William Woodard on a special program in celebration of Pride month, featuring songs traditionally performed by women.

To access all of these programs, and to learn more about current and future programming, please visit LAOpera.org/LAOatHome.

About LAO At Home
LA Opera was the first major American opera company to create a weekly schedule of original new online programming to bring opera to audiences during the coronavirus crisis. LAO At Home launched on March 17 with the first in a series of live "Living Room Recitals" featuring artists performing in their homes. Other programming highlights include "Learn at Home (Grown-Up Edition)" opportunities for opera lovers of any experience level to dive deeper into the art form, "Opera Family Time" presentations created specially for families with children to enjoy together (just one of many family and school programs offered), "From the Vault" audio-streams of earlier performances, and "Backstage at LAO" features that take viewers behind the scenes for a look at what it takes to create world-class opera.

About LA Opera
Los Angeles is a city of enormous diversity and creativity, and LA Opera is dedicated to reflecting that vibrancy by redefining what opera can be. Once this crisis has passed, our community will need the communal and curative power of opera more than ever. LA Opera is grateful to its supporters for helping to ensure that the company has the resources needed to get through this unprecedented period. Those wanting to support LA Opera can go to LAOpera.org/donate.

LA Opera is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving the greater Los Angeles community.

LA Opera's young artist program is generously underwritten by the Colburn Foundation, Eugene and Marilyn Stein, and Lenore and Richard Wayne. The program was created with funding from the Flora L. Thornton Foundation.